As a scientist and a composer I have developed a deeply inter-disciplinary approach to exploring how humans and machines decode and derive meaning from complex audio-visual phenomena such as music and film. What makes music move us? How do we derive meaning from music and images? What new types of experiences and technologies are possible in the audio-visual domain? What is the future of audio-visual art and music ?

Using a combination of methods from emprical musicology, mathematics, neuroscience, and engineering, the Bregman Research Studio investigates these and many more questions about the nature of audio-visual experience. See the Bregman Media Labs for more information.

Sarroff, A., and Casey, M., Musical Audio Synthesis Using Autoencoding Neural Networks, Proceedings of the Joint International Computer Music Conference and Sound and Music Conference 2014, September 2014, Athens, Greece.

Sievers, B., Polansky, L, Casey, M., and Wheatley, T., Music and Movement Share A Common Dynamic Strucure That Supports Universal Expressions of Emotion, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). December 2012.

Rhodes, C. and Casey, M., Algorithms for Determining and Labelling Approximate Hierarchical Self-Similarity, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Music Information Retrieval, Vienna, Austria, 2007.

Mauch, M., Dixon, S., Harte, C., Casey, M. and Fields, B., Discovering Chord Idioms Through Beatles and Real Book Songs, in Proceedings of the International Conference on Music Information Retrieval, Vienna, Austria, 2007.

Casey, M. and Grierson, M., Soundspotter and Remix-TV: Fast Approxmate Matching for Audio-Visual Performance, in Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2007.

Computer Scientist

In 1984, at the age of 16, I wrote my first commercial computer program, in 6502 assembly language, to analyze and predict premier league soccer results for Ken Flood, a local entrepreneur. After receiving my doctorate from MIT I became a research scientist at the MERL computer science laboratory in Cambridge, MA (1999), Professor of Computer Science at the Unversity of London's Goldsmiths College (2004), and Professor of Music and Computer Science at Dartmouth (2008-). From 2009-2013 I was Chair of the Department of Music and 2011-2013 I was co-chair of the Year of the Arts initivative.